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A bright weekend; update on the NWS tornado survey
It was a chilly Saturday morning all across Minnesota. The official low temp at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 45 degrees, and it was a few degrees cooler than that in some of the outlying parts of the metro area. Northeastern Minnesota had a lot of lower 30s early Saturday morning, and Hibbing dropped to…
Rain, with severe thunderstorms possible; fall colors showing up north
We’ve seen periods of rain over the past few days, and we’ll see rain most of today and into this evening. Severe thunderstorms are possible in some areas this afternoon and early this evening. A flash flood watch continues until 1 p.m. for southwestern Minnesota: Thunderstorm details A low pressure system will move from Nebraska…
More inches of rain coming our way
An additional 2 to 3 inches of rain is likely over central Minnesota including the Twin Cities, while locations in southern Minnesota subject to training thunderstorms might get 4 or more additional inches.
Rounds of rain on soggy ground could cause flooding
The big weather story for our part of the world the next few days will be the possibility of localized flash flooding, mainly across about the southern third of Minnesota. Rain so far It all began on Monday with an afternoon thunderstorm outbreak. Reinforcements with continuous lightning and thunder overnight Monday night into Tuesday added…
Stormy weather for a few more days; local flooding possible
A slowly-moving weather pattern means that we should look for rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms, especially across the southern half of our state, until about Thursday night.